Federal Service for Intellectual Property

Russian Patent Certificate (with Unofficial English Translation)

The Federal Service for Intellectual Property (commonly known as Rospatent; Russian: Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент), romanizedFederalnaya sluzhba po intellektualnoi sobstvennosti) is a Russian governmental agency in charge of intellectual property. Its former name was "Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent)".

In the former Soviet Union, Goskomizobretenie (Russian: Госкомизобретений), which stood for Gosudarstvennyi komitet po delam izobretenie i otkrytii, was the State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries. It maintained a registry of inventions and discoveries and gave out authors certificates and patents.

As of 1 August 2020, 476,905 national trademarks and 220,513 international trademarks were registered at the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, and it issued 266,104 patents.

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